John is Director of IRCs Global Programme and a member of the senior management team. IRC's Global Programme generates and uses evidence - working through partnerships - to drive change at scale in the systems that ultimately deliver water, sanitation and hygiene services at country and local levels.
John is a Briton and European, working from Lodz in Poland where he lives with his family. He has worked for IRC since 2005 and between 2016 and 2019 he was the country director in Ethiopia. He currently represents IRC in the Sanitation and Water for All led Heads of State Initiatives, the executive committee of the Agenda for Change, the Influence team for the One For Alliance, UN-water and the board of the Millennium Water Alliance.
While a high proportion of people In Ethiopian have access to improved water and sanitation services, only a small minority receive services that... Read more...
Promoting safely managed sanitation, market-based sanitation and public-private partnerships (PPPs). Read more...
Decentralized Provincial Community Participation and Education (PEC) was found to be the most cost-effective modality, with significant potential for... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning Theme 2 - "Markets and behaviour change : how people invest and driving to scale" session of the All Systems... Read more...
Presentations from the WASH Learning theme 1 - Delivering Safe WASH Services session of the All Systems Connect International Symposium 2023. Read more...
Quels sont les principaux goulots d'étranglement des systèmes à résoudre pour parvenir à un accès universel aux services WASH d'ici 2030. Read more...
What key systems bottlenecks need to be addressed to achieve universal access to WASH services by 2030. Read more...
Challenges and successes of a public private partnership between Kabarole District Local Government, National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC)... Read more...
This document provides guidance, available tools, and case studies from Agenda for Change members on district-level planning for sustainable... Read more...
Climate won the vote for the theme of this year's World Toilet Day. Read more...
Using systems thinking principles, this report explores how on-site sanitation services can be improved in Lusaka, Zambia, and Maputo, Mozambique. Read more...
An approach is developed to assess WASH risks in marginal populations that are poorly understood and served through conventional approaches. Read more...
Ten years after a community-led total sanitation campaign, intervention households continued to have higher rates of ever owning a latrine but... Read more...
A call for commitment, transformative thinking, engagement, integration and disaggregated data production. Read more...
AfricaSan5 just like a five-year old, reflects a sanitation and hygiene sector that is nowhere near mature, but is growing up fast and is full of ambition. Read more...
This paper presents reflections on how consumer WASH markets are being developed and the role of different types of actors in the system. Read more...
This paper addresses capacity building challenges for urban sanitation in India, with specific focus on Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM). Read more...
This book captures a range of experiences and innovations from a broad range of institutions and actors within the WASH sector, and attempts to make... Read more...
Major barriers to entry for sanitation start-ups in Ghana are the lack of start-up capital; lack of access to affordable banking services (... Read more...
The programme cost of CLTS is $30-82 per household targeted in Ghana, and $14-19 in Ethiopia. Local investments range from $8-22 per household... Read more...